But Grand Rapids still has many dangerous traffic spots with a high number of car accidents. Today I’m including my top 10 most dangerous intersections in Grand Rapids. Hopefully this will help protect West Michigan drivers who can avoid or take more care in these areas. I define “dangerous” by the number of car accidents that have occurred at these intersections in 2013.

The total number of crashes comes from the Michigan State Police Traffic Crash Reporting System, and is based upon the most recent crash statistics for 2013. It also comes from my own experiences, and those of the other attorneys in my law office. Our Grand Rapids law office is now our second busiest in the entire state, and our attorneys have personally helped people who were hurt in crashes in many of the intersections I list below:

As far as the No. 1 most dangerous intersection at 44th Street SE and Eastern Avenue SE, there’s nothing special about the area other than it is BIG. It has two to three lanes in each direction on 44th, separated by a grassy median. There’s no left turn, so traffic has to make a “Michigan turn.” The intersection does see a lot of morning and evening traffic. Steelcase headquarters are located at that corner.

The second worst intersection: Broadmoor is really the East Beltline. It is two lanes in each direction with a turn lane and very busy. And 28th Street is the busiest road in Grand Rapids, so these two roads coming together is going to create problems.

Hence, accident problems at most of the dangerous intersections on my list (Numbers 4-6 and 10), involve 28th Street.

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